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Prediction of susceptibility to major depression by a model of interactions of multiple functional genetic variants and environmental factors.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jun 2012
Wong M-L, Dong C, Andreev V, Arcos-Burgos M, Licinio J
Abstract excerpt
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most common psychiatric disorder and the second overall cause of disability. Even though a significant amount of the variance in the MDD phenotype is explained by inheritance, specific genetic variants conferring susceptibility to MDD explain only a minimal proportion of MDD causality. Moreover, genome-wide association studies have only identified two small-sized effect loci...
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